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The Ministry of Prophets and Apostles Today

“As we look into the eyes of a child, we see a fellow son or daughter of God who stood with us in the premortal life,” said Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “It is a crowning privilege of a husband and wife who are able to bear children to provide mortal bodies for these spirit children of God. We believe in families, and we believe in children.”

Warning that the world has moved far from spiritual things, President Thomas S. Monson spoke during one of his October 2011 general conference addresses on the importance of communicating with Heavenly Father through prayer. Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles also stressed the importance or daily, fervent supplication of and communication with Heavenly Father, in a general conference address he gave in 2007.

“Of all the people on the earth, members of this Church should know more about Jesus Christ than anyone else,” Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told Latter-day Saints in Madagascar and Malawi as he fulfilled an assignment to meet with members, missionaries, and leaders.

“We are grateful for charitable deductions, which encourage donations to churches and other charities,” Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles testified during a government hearing in Washington, D.C.

“As one born and raised in Utah County, and as one with many ties to Payson and adjoining cities . . . I was thrilled with President Monson’s announcement of this Payson Temple,” Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said. “The decision to build a temple in this place and the decision to name it the Payson [Utah] Temple were his decisions, and I know we all rejoice in these decisions of the Lord’s prophet.”

President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles addressed military chaplains during the annual Military Chaplains Seminar held in the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, following October general conference.

Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, sustained by millions worldwide as prophets and apostles, taught doctrine and principles as they addressed various gospel topics during the 181st semiannual general conference of the Church at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 1-2, 2011.